Senior Project Officer (Regional Health Education and Wellbeing Advisor, West and Central Africa)

Numéro du poste : 6SNED 0048PA

Classe : P-4

Secteur de tutelle : Field Office

Type de contrat : Engagements au titre d’un projet

Durée du contrat : 1 année

Recrutement ouvert à : Candidats internes et externes

Clôture des candidatures (minuit heure de Paris) : 15/12/2024

Valeurs fondamentales de l’UNESCO : Engagement envers l’Organisation, intégrité, respect de la diversité, professionnalisme

OVERVIEW OF THE POST

Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Education (ADG/ED), the functional authority of the Director of the UNESCO Multi-sectoral Regional Office in Dakar, and the direct supervision of the Chief of Education Section, the incumbent provides support to the strengthening and national scale-up of education sector responses to health education and wellbeing in West and Central Africa (WCA). He/she manages and supervises the Education for Health and Wellbeing cluster and team of the Education sector, and he/she is responsible for the coordination of the Our Lives, Our Rights, Our Future programme (O3) and other Health Education and Wellbeing programmes in WCA including its delivery.

Strategy and policy development

• Identifying opportunities for UNESCO engagement in policy development, standard setting and programming for health education and wellbeing
• Facilitating strategic planning within UNESCO for engagement in response to these opportunities in WCA

  Programme Management and Technical Support

  • Managing and supporting health education and wellbeing activities in WCA, including the O3 programme, ensuring high quality programme delivery, budget oversight, monitoring and reporting,
  • Coordinating closely with the Programme Manager in Eastern & Southern Africa region for O3 activities and with the Section of Health and Education at HQ for overall programme coherence and management
  • Coordinating regional reporting to HQ and donors
  • Building relationships with Ministries of Education, the Regional Economic Communities, the Union African Commission, and providing technical guidance and guidelines for further development of their capacities and activities

    Liaison

    • Liaising with UNESCO structures, including other education clusters at the Dakar Office, health education and wellbeing staff in WCA, the Section of Health and Education at HQ, the Regional Health Education Advisor for East and Southern Africa and relevant UNESCO institutes
      

      Representation and partner relations

      📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

      ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

      • Developing and maintaining partner relations in WCA with regional bodies and development partners, including civil society organizations
      • Advocating for the role of health education in education sector
      • Collaborating with others United Nations Agencies in WCA (eg. UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, etc.) and participating in appropriate regional forums, such as the Joint UN Programmes and the Technical Working Group of the WCA Commitment
      • Liaising with civil society, youth commitments associations and NGO which intervenes in the domain of health education and wellbeing in WCA

        Resource mobilization

        • Identifying potential for resource mobilization and leading on, or supporting, proposal development
        • Providing technical support for countries in accessing funding for the education sector response to health education and wellbeing
        • Participating in working groups on financing and joint UN missions
          

          Leadership and supervision

          • Supervising a small team of professionals, consultants and interns, ensuring leadership on annual project planning (workplan, budget and monitoring)
          • Ensuring human resources needs for the work are planned and met

            COMPETENCIES

            A successful candidate will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:

            Core Competencies

            Accountability

            Communication

            Teamwork

            Innovation

            Results focus

            Planning and organizing

            Knowledge sharing and continuous improvement

            Managerial Competencies

            Driving and managing change

            Strategic thinking